react-native-biometrics VS husky

react-native-biometrics helps us to access functionalities like FaceID, TouchID, or any other biometric features that are available in the device. react-native-biometrics uses the device Keystore for biometric authentication. it's helpful when you develop an application that is security intensive.

In React Native, this solution is readily available with the react-native-biometrics library, which is, unfortunately, not actively maintained (last commit 2/2020) and its biometrics part does not support the latest standards, such as fallback to passcode when Face ID fails.

In this post, I will primarily discuss client-side hooks. I'll delve into three specific hooks: pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push. The central tool discussed will be Husky, which simplifies the configuration of Git Hooks, making it more straightforward.

Reading Biome doc I also switched from husky to lefthook.

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Let’s walk through the steps for a one-time setup to configure husky pre-commit and pre-push hooks, ESLint with code styles conventions, prettier code formatter, and lint-staged. Husky automatically runs a script on each commit or push. This is useful for linting files to enforce code styles that keeps the entire code base following conventions.

We were already using lint-staged and have a pre-commit hook in place using Husky in our project for linter and prettier. So it made sense to add a check here.

Now, let's talk about Husky. It's a wonderful tool that enables you to run scripts on any Git hooks. We'll add a pre-commit hook to run ESLint and Stylelint checks before committing. This ensures that we don't commit code with errors.